The RECORD

SODOM'S SIN OF PRIDE

"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it."

(Ezekiel 16:49,50)

QUOTATIONS FOR THE DAY

"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"

(Theodore Roosevelt)

LEAGUE TO PROTEST GAY PRIDE PARADE

The Christian Civic League of Maine will protest the Southern Maine Gay Pride Parade in Portland this Saturday June 17, 2006. Members of the League will also videotape the parade, to provide the public with a documentary record of all that takes place. The Christian Civic League will also inform the public of the identity of any local and state official who participates in the parade.

The Christian Civic League RECORD was the only paper in Maine to inform the public that several state officials, including Senator Peter Mills and Senator Karl Turner, attended this year's Equality Maine Awards Banquet. The RECORD was also the only newspaper in Maine to publish photos of Governor John Baldacci speaking at the event.

The decision by The Christian Civic League of Maine to protest the parade is based on a deep concern over the growing power of the homosexual rights movement. Only recently, Westbrook schools adopted a change in curriculum requiring kindergarteners to be taught that same-sex marriage is normal and desirable. The driving force behind the curriculum changes is a former lesbian activist who was the chairman of the homosexual rights group Montana PRIDE.

The Christian Civic League of Maine is mindful of the current climate of intimidation in our state, which many call "The New McCarthyism." Anyone who holds a religious or moral objection to homosexuality runs the risk of being stigmatized as an "intolerant bigot." Individuals who speak out against the homosexual agenda often lose their livelihoods. Worse, gay activists have attacked, beaten, and spat upon individuals who protest their politically-correct celebrations of "diversity." It is a story that the pro-homosexual media conveniently chose to ignore.

For precisely this reason, The League will protest the Southern Maine Gay Pride parade this coming Saturday, providing a documentary record for the people of Maine, and will not hesitate to speak out against homosexual activism in the strongest possible terms.

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON IMMIGRATION

You have spoken of the immigration laws. I believe not merely that all possible steps should be taken to prevent the importation of laborers under any form, but I believe further that this country ought to make a resolute effort from now on to prevent the coming in to the country of men with a standard of living so low that they tend, by entering into unfair competition with, to reduce the standard of living of our own people.

Not one of you can go farther than I will go in the effort steadily to raise the status of the American wage-worker, so long as, while doing it, I can retain a clear conscience and the certainty that I am doing what is right. I will do all in my power for the laboring man except to do what is wrong, and I will not do that for him or for anyone else.

We must not let our national sentiment for succoring the oppressed and unfortunate of other lands lead us into that warped moral and mental attitude of trying to succor them at the expense of our own people.

Laws should be enacted to keep out all immigrants who do not show that they have the right stuff to enter into our life on terms of decent equality with our own citizens. This is needed, first, in the interest of the laboring man, but furthermore in the interest of all of us as American citizens; for gentlemen, the bonds that unite all good American citizens are stronger by far than the differences, which I think you accentuate altogether too much, between the men who do one kind of labor and the men who do another.

As for immigrants, we cannot have too many of the right kind; and we should have none at all of the wrong kind (Theodore Roosevelt)

HEAD OF CONSTITUTION PARTY VISITS LEAGUE

Michael S. Heath, Executive Director of the League, met with Matt Jones, director of the Constitution Party in Maine last Thursday, to discuss current political trends in Maine, and to assess the prospects for a third party in the state.

Both Heath and Jones agreed for the most part on the issues confronting our state and nation, and shared the opinion that a third party reflecting true conservative values is vitally important to the future of Maine.

THE BROOKS OF MAINE

Here is the old, old Maine brook that you remember. It is loitering through the meadow at the foot of the pasture. It is crossed by the old log and the stepping stones. The cows have cropped its banks until they are as velvet lawn. It winds here and there through the sun-swept emerald with a thin line of shadow. And away it goes through tiny swimming holes to the boulders and the granite bed of the old post-road. And then a little farther on, it plunges into the edge of the woods and begins to be a woodland stream. It here finds its voice, and it is myriad. Trees bend over and kiss its running water. It leaps over rocks and splashes into small pools where you may lean and drink. It broadens into bowers with mossy banks...You knew every foot of it and can follow it, in your memory, by day or by night, whether you be in desert or in the town.

Not until water fell on earth could life appear. Not until the sunlight came could there be rainbows and flashing light through green boughs. Ages passed before brooks ran and clear-petaled flowers gemmed their banks…the brooks and hills of Maine are symbols of a perfecting world. They have a deeper significance than mere running waters. Like the shadows that came first as a sign of a new order of the risen sun, first breaking through the mist that enshrouded a dead world, that it might live again; so the waters are a part of the same new order and shall endure as a sign of the growth and development of God's plan. (Arthur G. Staples)

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AMERICA ASLEEP
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"Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep" (Proverbs 6:10)

QUOTATIONS FOR THE DAY

"When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station."

(Addison)

"Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes."

(Emerson)

IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL WILL OPEN DOOR TO
OVER 100 MILLION NEW IMMIGRANTS

A study by Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, warns that a proposed immigration reform bill now in the U.S. Senate, S. 2611, will allow more than one hundred million new immigrants to the U.S. over the next twenty years, a number equal to one-third of the current population of the U.S.

Rector warns that under the bill, the rate of immigration into the U.S. would increase from one million a year to over five million. Legal immigration would provide nearly twenty million new immigrants over the next twenty years; and amnesty for illegal aliens would provide twenty million new Americans. Expanded immigration rights for legal immigrants would result in five million more over the next twenty years; and employment-based green cards, would allow in thirteen and one-half million additional immigrants. Twenty million more would be allowed in under a proposed guest worker program; and the immigration of spouses and children of illegal immigrants would bring in at least six million. Parents of naturalized citizens would add an additional five million new immigrants.

According to Rector, the Senate bill, if enacted into law, would cause the largest influx of immigrants in U.S. history, resulting in fully one-quarter of the U.S. population being foreign-born by 2026. Meanwhile, eighty-four hospitals in California have already closed their doors because of the costs of caring for illegal aliens.

Although it escaped the notice of all but a few Mainers, Governor John Baldacci, while a Congressman, was criticized by many immigration reform groups because of his ultra-liberal stand on immigration.

In April 2004, the Governor signed an Executive Order making Maine the first sa nctuary state, following the lead of Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City. Under the Governor's Executive Order it became illegal for any state employee, including law enforcement officers, to inquire into the status of illegal aliens, or to report their status to any other branch of government. Supporters of the Governor's sanctuary state order said it was needed to make Maine a "more welcoming place" and to ensure that state services were "open to all people, regardless of their legal status." On the day the Executive Order was signed, Governor Baldacci joined with representatives of the Maine Civil Liberties Union and other left-wing groups, to celebrate in the Blaine House. At the time, many observers commented that the Governor's sanctuary state order would lead to total immigration anarchy, and the eventual collapse of social services in Maine because of the estimated eleven million to twenty million illegal aliens already in the U.S.

Pressure from the public recently forced the enactment of a state law which prevents illegal aliens from using expired visas and passports to obtain a Maine drivers license. In one notorious incident, an Egyptian who was in deportation proceedings in New York City, traveled to Maine and obtained a drivers licens e with the help of a Portland attorney. He had previously been denied a drivers license in New York. Although the DMV employee who handled the case was reluctant to issue the license, she was instructed by the Secretary of State to grant the illegal alien a license, even though the documents presented were not enough for a U.S. citizen to obtain a Maine license under the same circumstances.

The number of illegal aliens in Maine is unknown, having been estimated at anywhere from slightly more than three thousand to forty thousand, as recently claimed by Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion. Interestingly, the State of Maine asked the Federal government for over $400,000 as compensation for the cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in 1999, but received only slightly more than $100,000.

THE DANGEROUSLY DECEPTIVE DA VINCI CODE

The mainstream press has taken the League to task for daring to suggest that the soon-to-be-released Da Vinci Code presents an extreme spiritual danger because the movie deliberately and cynically seeks to undermine the faith of its viewers. Now, a survey has provided scientific proof that the movie does just that.

According to Reuters News Service, a poll commissioned by a group of prominent English Catholics, and conducted by a leading opinion research firm, the Opinion Research Bureau, shows that the book has an enormous impact on those who read it, by distorting their views regarding certain basic principles of Christianity. Those who have read the book are more than twice as likely to believe that Christ had children by Mary Magdalene; and were four times as likely to believe that the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei has carried out murders, as depicted in the book.

The scientific study, which sampled the opinions of one-thousand members of the public, confirms the League's claim that the book and movie were never intended as entertainment, but were from the beginning a demonically-inspired effort to lead people away from Jesus Christ, and into the soul-destroying belief called Gnosticism.

The movie, which will be released in seventy countries worldwide -- including the countries of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia -- can be expected to have a deep and lasting impact on public opinion regarding the truth of the Gospels.